Farewell To The Father Elliott Timothy by Elliott, Timothy instant download after payment.

**"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open."**** Benjamin Law**
*Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me...*
Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three siblings, a private school education and endless opportunities to fish and surf at the nearby beaches.
But this was not the idyllic childhood it appeared. A charismatic, well-respected doctor by day, Tim's father became a roaring madman at night.
*The house was our castle, and Dad was our king. He was an unpredictable king, tyrannous and moody, lethal one day, loving the next.*
This is an extraordinary memoir of growing up with a parent afflicted by mental illness: a complex elegy, powerfully told, loaded with love, rage and surprising humour. It is about the lengths children will go to protect themselves - and their families - from shame or harm, and how adapting to that adversity becomes and intractable part of who we are as adults.
**PRAISE FOR TIM ELLIOT**
"...he has brought us a most extraordinary memoir - bitter-sweet, tragicomic - and in the end redemptive." *Sydney Morning Herald*
"Searing piece on mental illness... Bravo" Jessica Rowe
"One of the finest, most moving pieces on mental illness you'll ever read" Professor Simon Chapman
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